enjoying the company of a group of friends; could foreshadow her relationship with the paparazzi; how she feeds off them, subjective point of view and you feel that you are forced to adopt a position in order to fully understand what he is trying to key characters; slow motion used during funeral footage – camera is clearly at Even Senna â he felt like an outsider, and Amy became something like that. aesthetics or the address to the spectator. wider public (though this necessarily begs the question, why film it in the grainy, unsteady – sense that the spectator is intruding; asks uncomfortable Did you have any moral dilemmas about what you kept in? feel more rehearsed, whilst others (her friend crying at the end, for example) have conclusions but to raise questions. 27 is way too young. , Tony Bennett. Broomfield is an investigative idea that the spectator is responsible for her death; though we are consuming a I could not wait in any way to go and see it! documentary film. He appears in his films and we can often see the sound boom in the frame and we are also very aware of the camera. eyes, - Still photographs, often CU or XCU, w camera (very) - Use of captions for lyrics and locations and times – it is with its subject. - Observational documentary: unobtrusive, observing reality, - Uniquely personal stories often focusing on outsiders, - Centered on victims of discrimination & oppression, - Amy is presented as a victim of the media & male patriarch + addiction, - Observational: home footage, Amy isn't acting for the camera, - Longinotto wanted to make audience feel involved & were there, watching what's happening through camera, - Kapadia possibly inspired by Longinotto's intention to attain a sense of justice through awareness. Amy (Kapadia, UK, 2005) Context: Amy Winehouse 'Popstar' Thereâs an idea thatâs elegantly expressed by the novelist Italo Calvino) thatâs worth engaging with and returning to quite often in relation to the films that we study at A Level and itâs this: that a classic text is a story that has not yet finished with what it has to say to an audience. feel more impromptu; also raises the question of which bits of interview have contemporary documentary practice - one which is as much concerned with the cinematic as appropriate in relation to the subject matter and the circumstances in which the film sound matching – blends diegetic and non-diegetic to demonstrate how successful The guide provides an in depth case study of the film Amy Itâs a bit hip-hop, itâs a bit jazz, itâs a bit soul, but itâs very Londony. - Concert footage – home video – flattens the sound and makes a productive baseline for discussion. arguing: • that the film is highly conceptual with the chosen key aspect highly determined by the Amy: - 2015 British documentary film -> about life of death of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, directed by Asif Kapadia - Feb 2015: teaser trailer based on Winehouse life debuted at pre-Grammy event in build-up to 2015 Grammys. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs. I think the actual reality of what was going on was much darker than what we put in the film. Candid testimonies about all aspects and stages of Amyâs life are coupled with archive interviews with the singer herself. , Darcus Beese mirror, as if to an audience; does this foreshadow her ego, craving fame, It establishes a link between Broomfield and the audience in a clear way. • Band 5 responses may recognise that some aspects of digital production (e.g. attention? - English singer & songwriter known for deep, expressive contralto vocals & eclectic mix of musical genres (inc soul, blue-eyed soul, neo soul, rhythm, blues, jazz etc), - Debut album: Frank ('03) -> critical success, nominated for Mercury Prize, - 2nd album: Back To Black ('06) -> led to 5 2008 Grammys, tying the then record for most wins by a female artist in a single night + first British women to win five Grammys, inc 3 of 'Big Four' (BNA, ROTY, SOTY), - Won 3 Ivor Novello Awards: 2004 (Best Contemporary Song -> Stronger Than Me), 2007 (Best Contemporary Song - Rehab), 2008 (Best Song Musically & Lyrically -> Love Is A Losing Game), - Won 2007 Brit for Best British Female + nominated for Album with BTB, - Died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July '11, aged 27. He often works with a small The use of home footage also The subjects that Broomfield talks to on-camera are often as disarmed by his seemingly easy-going, relaxed persona as we at the end – juxtaposition acts as an antidote to the hard-hitting images of The men in the documentary are either marginalized or portrayed negatively which is also evident in the documentaries made by Kim Longinotto. Thereâs a lot of that going on in the story as well, people from outside of town wanting to be more Londony than the Londoners. ever ‘natural’ on film – film creates different personas) – we have no way of What this section hopes to explore is how we can look at this debate in relation to I do. we decided to make a movie about her—her career and her life. There was a point when Asif and I were in New York and interviewing people. mid-conversation and quite combative – however, we don’t know to whom she is David Joseph, CEO of Universal Music UK, announced, would be released later that year. The key aspect may, for example, be to do with representation or narrative or pause before he says “I would” – at this point, the music builds – there‘s an home footage, there is a single, repeated piano riff/leitmotif – mood is In this essay I will be discussing Amy (Kapadia, 2015). • a conclusion that the application of the filmmaker's theory is likely to have increased by damonkeizer. I used to live there at the time and it was the place to be. of deliberately conflicting representations of her. manipulate the spectator. Running at a lengthy 2 hours and 8 minutes, Amy is a deeply moving, powerful and balanced documentary on a complex individual. Broomfield doesn’t seem to mind treading on peoples toes or upsetting his subjects. - Later films: 'performative documentary'. One â which is really significant but is not political at all â itâs a sheer logistical thing. life as a singer could be – she’s also surrounded by males – the studio itself of photographers – positions the spectator in an uncomfortable position – we clearly this has been reassembled to create meaning – exaggerates the amount It tackles lots of things about family and media, Effect = family album/scrapbook) – then elliptical editing flashing It tells Amy's truth without trying to gear the audience one way or another in regards to sympathy. documentary film. â grantss. The fact that she looked original and that her writing style really stands out. pattern of self-filming amongst the group, and the generation as a whole. films, It could be argued that her perspective on the range of different cultures she encounters in her films gives a real sense of questions about spectatorship – about the need to view this kind of event, - Still images of Amy are of happier times – dissolves Let's see what happens next weekend and maybe I ⦠This guide provides teachers with an overview of Documentary include classroom strategies and resources to use with students. like film – different people will have different perceptions of Amy; could we handheld cameras) may be used to convey an illusory sense of the real (i.e. theory. - Look at stance of character; what does it tell us about them - Facial expression: what does it tell us about character within scene - Delivery of the dialogue: what does it tell us about chara, Global Film (COG & PL) - Film Form - Meaning & Response - Contexts KEY SCENES ANALYSIS: https://jordanilanjcossfilmstudies.blogspot.com/2017/10/city-of-god-5-scene-analysis-viewing.html Includes (with references to film forms, context & themes): - The 60's -> The story of the Tender Trio - The story of Lil Ze - The runts - The assault on Knockout Ned, his girlfriend & his family - Rocket as reporter https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=8FD3295705B0A1A7!148&ithint=file%2cpptx&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AKvuzLTwFmzcGHs Full detailed analysis of: - Choosing which kid to shoot - Bene's death/farewell - The final scene https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=8FD3295705B0A1A7!151&ithint=file%2cpptx&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AIHxgpTBfIemWJs Full detailed analysis of: - Shaggy's Death - Bene's death - Lil Ze's death Interview with Fernando Meirelles -> https://www.slantmagazine.com/fe, Pan's Labyrinth Context Why are films made: - Political reasons - Inform people of events occurring in the world - To make money - To earn awards How are different types of films made: - Hollywood studios: aiming for commercial audience - Independent studios: less restrictions/more control Films & their contexts: - Films are depictions of people/places/events, reflect values & culture of society that produces them. professionally-produced footage would have been available? people feel the need to capture the minutiae (minor details) of their lives? So whatâs really pleasing about the movie and the reaction weâve had so far is that people feel that theyâve seen a different side to her and they are re-evaluating her. made and developed, supported by film detail. The artistic life and awful death of Amy Winehouse at age 27 has been so exhaustively chronicled that ⦠Amy’s early life; Kapadia wants spectator to align with Amy, possibly Weâd invite the guys from Universal to watch it and the lights would go up afterwards and weâd see ashen faces. Within the picture, recording studio scenes show how some of her greatest songs were created, while elsewhere the scars of alcohol, crack and heroin abuse are laid bare. relate to his uncovering of the facts in the same way that they are trying to make meaning from what he is presenting them chosen documentary. Although Amy Winehouse is often painted simply as a tragic figure, the documentary Amy, directed by Asif Kapadia, gives viewers an all-encompassing view of ⦠increasingly fragile mental condition/represent panic – encourages empathy, - Juxtaposition of moving and still image – often lengthy It shows the interviews she had with people and how she⦠2011) or tragic figures from popular culture: Kurt Cobain (Kurt and I think he would have liked it to have been an extended montage of all the fun times they had together, of which Iâm sure they had many. The effect of the long takes attempts to create the feeling of trying to achieve) – in terms of spectatorship, the film invites a negotiated manipulating spectator response? edited the footage; therefore, how do we know who is responsible for creating I try to make them as like the experience of watching a fiction film David Joseph, CEO of Universal Music UK, announced Amy would be released later that year. That was our biggest challenge, to stop it becoming overwhelming. All rights reserved. Amyâs father Mitch Winehouse has spoken on British television about his unhappiness with the documentary, which he claims is unbalanced and misrepresents his own role in his daughterâs life. - Singing – Amy interrupting conversation, monopolising And vice-versa, have negative sequences been used in the latter Amyâs ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil is also portrayed negatively. Distinction should be made her emotion – telegraphs the death to come, - VO – Andrew Morris – Amy would have taken it all back; During the production process, we conducted in the region of 100 interviews with people who knew Amy Winehouse; friends, family, former partners ⦠- Sutures spectator into the diegesis of Senna was the whole idea of not having talking heads and this is my musical, which is somehow making the songs come out of the narrative. He stated: "About two years ago Each offers much insight into a more creative kind of a montage of stills of Amy and famed jazz singers of the classical jazz era was about, which is an amazing person and a true musical genius.”. in the film is through the juxtaposition of sound and image – some of the VOs Watkins, Broomfield, Longinotto or Moore. forward 3 months (prolepsis) – what has happened in those three months? ); the choice of cinematic style; mode of address to the spectator. cuts are used for the still images, with post-production track-ins used, - Concert footage, stills, grainy home video, professional She does, however, have extraordinary talents that clearly set her apart – apparent as everyone falls silent – our response mediated through diegetic audience, - Spectator response: she’s an ordinary teenager with. might question why we’re watching this film; do we enjoy Amy’s increasing professional, respectful (persuasive language – use of professional opinion) – They all put on this accent, and they want to be something. Focuses on women's lives -> female victims & tragic stories -> feminist perspective: - Film encourages spectator to align with Amy & her story as a victim, - Women victims of abuse - male patriarch + media, - Filming of media suggests Amy as victim of media exploitation - spectator placed in position of a paparazzi (POV) photographing her - conveys how we as consumers of media exacerbated her condition (sense of guilt), - Closing scene: still shots & videos (which become slow motion) of her growing up are shown, she is portrayed as an innocent young woman corrupted by the media/father/boyfriend/addiction. Were there any particular challenges in this film that you hadnât come across before? create meaning through elliptical editing, - Portable, digital cameras enable spectators to see Amy in effect used of Amy smoking w slow zoom, - Natural lighting – not professionally lit. BTB posthumously became, for a time, UK's best-selling album of 21st century, - How film was constructed to create meaning, - What are the key sequences in terms of how meaning is created, - Sense in which spectator is manipulated by filmmaker, A British director who works in observational documentary, Her subject matter has a primary focus on women’s lives, She favours long takes and she tries to capture the extraordinary in the lives of the subjects that she observes, The stories that she brings to the screen are often uniquely personal, mainly focusing on society’s outsiders, Her films shot in a calm, unobtrusive style, often centre on victims of discrimination and oppression and tell the stories of so she’s not acting up (though you could argue that no-one is She says she doesn’t want her films to She deserves that re-evaluation because she was a world-class talent and a unique human being. That approach really is voyeuristic. Candidates will identify some of the key characteristics underpinning their chosen I think Iâll probably do a variation of it. There are a number of factors that affect the relationship between production contexts and films and these include finance, technology, social and political issues and use of stars. - Kapadia uses elliptical editing with flashbacks to - Longinotto has said 'I don’t think of films as documents or records of things. as possible, though, of course, nothing is ever set up.' His obvious fascination with his subjects is always apparent and his self-reflexive style means that he tends to approach to documentary making or filmmaking in general. of their film. - Editing during drinking sequence seems to have BBC Studios Production has appointed Amy Flanagan to lead its award-winning Documentary Unit. He has made a very Amy came out of the audio interviews. - All circumstances that a film was produced in & shape its reception are a film's context - A study of context looks at when/where/how/why film is set where it is (time/place/circumstances) - Study of context focuses more on appropriate context of when films were made, as opposed to set (Pan's Labyrinth is a reflection of 2005 society) There are different kinds of context that need to be considered when studying & analysing films: Social: - A look at the relevant society's dominant attitudes & beliefs including, teaser trailer based on Winehouse life debuted at pre-Grammy event in build-up to 2015 Grammys. improvisation. Unlike Moore and Broomfield, Longinotto is invisible, with very little use of voice-over, formal between the mass media/tabloid representation, and this film (and what it’s the song eventually became – meaning is created by contextual/retrospective news teams swarming around – sound of flashbulbs, - Director wants to leave a positive image of Amy Candidates will make some reference to documentary filmmakers' theory which we can all relate, - Representation – the deliberate selection of material to It follows Amy's life from the start of her career to her death and starts with a shot of her before she was famous and ends the same. - The documentary film in its contemporary form has become a much freer form, utilising recognition and reflection of these digital techniques and their influence on the documentary All five films in this section of the specification have utilised digital session as a means of justifying Amy’s behaviour and subsequent addictions? - When we cut to the latter session, Amy is That's amazing for a documentary, but this genre rarely expands truly wide. that they • some discussion of the impact of digital technology on documentary style, for realise the devastating impact of her drug abuse. - Juxtaposition – placing the flashbacks between the two Annie Mae is one of thousands who make up the staggering number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. been reordered – we don’t know at what point the camera was even rolling; Ronson session – have more positive sequences been Listeners can hear one of their own and respond to the truth. alcoholism and bulimia is the result of her grandmother’s death – WHO has Thereâs something about her style visually. Senna was a particular guy, he was not around to interview and he happened to be in a sport where there was a hell of a lot of material. His films are completely told from a selected by Kapadia. They were all reluctant at the beginning. Is he When Iâm doing a film I quite like to find some way of pushing myself, whether or not there is some kind of stylistic thing to push the medium or to do something different. empathise with her, - Kapadia wants us to see that Amy is an ordinary person??? editing (which may lead to conscious manipulation of material or the blurring of 'fact' her life, however fast-lived, gains a clearer context, as does her untimely death. Presumably, this is a small part of much longer footage – presumably part of a We will show you how to do enough editing in order to make a basic video essay. Some film commentators argue that although digital technology could potentially transform If, in some small way, people think of her in a different light, thatâs good enough for me. are coded to give the impression of reality to spectators). And all of that gang, none of them are actually from London, theyâre all from outside of London. - Band 5 responses are likely to be characterized by their confident grasp of ideas and a high angle from a great distance but is heavily zoomed in; makes the footage From South Park to London Road: the rise of the alternative musical, Juliette Ashby director seeking an excuse for her behaviour later in her career? At the back end, both Asif and I added layer after layer of effects, so [the challenge was] to try and unite it all and create something that felt like a single film, rather than a collection of random clips. • Band 5 responses may claim that documentaries can only convey an ideological Others consider that the impact of digital filmmaking is only and has won a total of 30 film awards, including for Best European Documentary (forming montage? So it was interesting not to have a script, not to have to worry about financing, to just go off and interview people. the real in terms of the claims of filmmaker's theory. what points were made? A haunting, heartbreaking and stunningly brilliant film from Senna director Asif Kapadia, which takes us into the confidence of Amy Winehouse, as the bolshy, big-voiced, jazzy Jewish girl from North London becomes a megastar, while her personal demons, her relationship with a drug addict, and a ravenous, amoral press proceed to rip her to shreds. debates? Driver’s Wife 1991), his film on the Hollywood prostitute Heidi Fleiss (Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam 1996) and his meaning? experimental work. and the backing track, which periodically fades in; scene is predicated by Some 20 million people own a copy of Amy Winehouseâs second and final studio album, Back to Black. (one or two from Watkins, Broomfield, Longinotto, Moore) identifying points of interest that What is interesting about Broomfield is the persona that he presents in his films. I just thought, âthis is nuts, itâs all here, why has no one thought of it?â. He can appear to be really disorganised and haphazard in his approach to his work and this works well on two levels. theories but will be expected to clarify the central ideas they are applying to their It just depends on the subject. He describes his films as 'like a rollercoaster ride. soundtrack of the same name also led Winehouse her second posthumous nomination Amy was constructed in a similar way to your last film, Senna. the divide between fact and fiction. Candidates will address the question, and in the process, develop a position on the âAMYâ Documentary Film (click on image to see the âamyâ trailer) Whilst I was doing my work experience at On The Corner, the production company was making this film at the time. intervene and question his subjects on the issues that he is curious about as well as addressing the audience directly. Find out about international touring programmes, BFI Film Academy: opportunities for young creatives, Get funding to progress my creative career, Search the BFI National Archive collections, Read research data and market intelligence, Search for projects funded by National Lottery, Apply for British certification and tax relief, Get help as a new filmmaker and find out about NETWORK, Find out about booking film programmes internationally. We do allude to that, and we do imply that they were very close, but we have to look at the bigger picture. Itâs not trying to copy American-style writing, all of the lingo she slips in there. It was really edgy, There were lots of bands, there were lots of drugs going around it was just very happening and cool but dark. crew in one long take and his interview work is unscripted. The Amy Herdy-produced series chronicles Allen and Farrow's subsequent custody trial and the revelation of Allenâs relationship with Farrowâs daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. interviews, news footage, paparazzi footage. = highest-grossing British documentary of all time, taking £3 million I think 90% of our rushes were digital files and in the most dizzying array of formats. (diegetic), - At the very start, over the title cards and the initial a great post about the history of the documentary and its different sub-genres The paparazzi, meanwhile, are shown to be as ghoulishly unscrupulous as they are in Nightcrawler (2014). There were rough cut screenings where weâd been cutting together a new section which could be another two years [of her life], and that was sometimes 2008 and 2009, when things were particularly bad in terms of her addictions. of life. I think the tragedy is when these people are gone, thatâs it. Most celebrities are seen in a ⦠The sentimental/melancholic background music emphasises this, - Feminist -> vulnerable women victimised by the media (exploited), - Digital film technology allowed the spectator to view Amy on a more intimate level & to see her from a personal perspective of being inside her house -> shown in the home setting, - For example when Amy's boyfriend is filming her inside their home - intimate footage - portrays her drug addiction - untidy apartment (hasn't been cleaned for the camera), - Filmmakers therefore unobtrusive & claim to be showing spectators the 'real' Amy (though it's arguable whether this is really the case - she can be said to still be playing up to the camera), - Sense of personal involvement in his documentaries -> 'felt a need to look at things in a more immediate way', - Found Britain 'a hypocritical & repressive country in terms of media freedom' -> made films with American filmmaker Joan Churchill often in the US, - After break-up with Churchill, developed less observational + more up-front style: 'if you're making a film, it's more honest to make your presence felt than to hang back furtively on the other side of the room as no-one really benefits from that. Amy’s performance of Moon River with the National Youth Orchestra; bridging to We want people to come out of the film thinking, âWasnât she amazing?â and I hope weâve achieved that. The home For me, the media forgot about the talent and just focused on the downfall, and the dysfunctionality became this very easy gag and punchline. diverse range of films from his portrait of the South African neo-Nazi Eugene Terreblanche (The Leader, The Driver and The may include the role of portable, digital cameras and digital sound recording Technique and effect ⢠Asif Kapadiaâs documentary is distinctive in many ways ⢠It follows the same format as his film Senna to a similar effect ⢠Director labels as âtrue fictionâ ⢠All archival footage and lacks guiding voiceover ⢠Number of interviews ⢠Captions and the use of Amyâs music as well as a developed score ⢠All work to position the spectator in a particular way Producer James Gay-Rees and editor Chris King have reunited with Kapadia for Amy, having worked together on Senna (2010), the poignant documentary about Formula 1 racing driver Aryton Senna. Amy Winehouse, the subject of Asif Kapadia's documentary 'Amy.' Some would say that the home video encreases your interpretation of Amy and makes you feel like you have a more intimate knowledge of this person. What the tasks here will set out to achieve is a sense of fluency, - Approx. selection process within the selected footage – these layers of selection Visually, the story is told with a broad selection of professional and amateur video and photographs, which include everything from Amyâs hilarious responses to banal interview questions to never-seen-before shots of her wedding day. The aspect will be appropriate to the chosen The film received 33 nominations ©2021 British Film Institute. Her work is about finding characters that the audience will identify with – 'you can make between them; slow zooms into pictures, Intercut with news footage (?) manipulate the spectator into assuming that Amy’s spiral into drug abuse, One person I wasnât able to get to was her brother. The interesting thing about doing it as a doc instead of as a drama is that it would have taken years to get a script together. The film is by turns as honest, heartbreaking and amusing as the singerâs best work and is certain to elicit many tears, thoughts of contemplative regret and laughs from its audience. Courtney, 1998) and Whitney Houston (Can I Be Me, 2017). The thing about doing the film quite soon after Amy had died was that none of them had spoken to people outside of their inner circle, so it really is the first time theyâre speaking to strangers. sombre, nostalgic in a melancholic way; foreboding; these were happier times Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards and for Best Documentary at What are the presence to a minimum, normally with a crew of no more than three. is reality, - Music – same as at the start – initially a single piano ), beautiful (to represent her life), celebratory (? 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